Don't Bury the Lede: From Trauma and Vietnam to Journalism

This memoir is by an unconventional journalist who became a reporter for newspapers including the Des Moines Register and the Chicago Tribune, was the editor of the esteemed Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists magazine, and then was a University of Colorado journalism professor.

Len Ackland's story focuses on two extraordinarily intense experiences, which jolted him and shaped his lifelong quest for answers. First came the horrific suicide of his father, Jack-a World War II veteran-in 1961. Le...